Improvement in folding bedsteads



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dilated ,Strae MARK CROSBY, OF BOSTON, MASSAGHUSETTSO.

Letters Patent No. 108,457, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING BEDSTEADS.

MHdv The Schedule referred Ito in these Letters Patent and mkiug part ofthe same.

To all whom fit 'may concern:

Bc it known that I, MARK Cuosny, of Boston, in the county of Suiolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful ImprovementinFolding Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to thclaccompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a perspective view ot' the bedstead when opened.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the case and bcdsteadfolded.

This invention relates to hat class of French parlor bedsteads which canbe ,olded up, with thev bed, into a form resembling a neat bureau orstand, and the invention consists in a new and improved method ofconnecting the parts that fold together, so as to admit of thesidc-pieces being made narrower at the middle than at the ends, while,at the same time, it allows the bedstead to fold readily and easily,iuclosing the bedding between the folded parts.

1n the drawingl c a el a? represent the bottom pieces;

s s s' sthe side pieces h the headboard;

fthe footboard; 4and l l the legs of the bedstead; and v G a box or caseattached to the bedstead by means of semi-annular slots, c c, and pins'or friction-rollers, c' c', so that the folding parts can be turneddown till they rest on the legs in a horizontal position, as shown intig. l, o1' be folded and turned up till they stand vertically in thecase, as shown by fig. 2, the pins moving in the slots as the bedsteadis turned down or up, and forming a neat and substantial hinge. Y

on mare metallic plates, flat on one side, and provided with a flange orrib, a, on the other, constructed as shown in the drawing.

These plates are made rights and lefts, and are attached by screws tothe adjacent ends o f the side pieces s s. Thus formed and attached theyare connected` together by a bar, I, which turns on pins Ii1', passinginto or through the plates, the bar lying fiat against the plates, itsends and lower side being in contact with the flanges a n, in theposition shown in fig. 1, when the bedstead is unfolded, and as shownin' fever upon the head a s h, the edge of the footboard resting uponand throughout its whole length, matching with the upper edge of theheadboard and a piu, lr, which projects from one-entering a hole, o, inthe other, so as to prevent the parts from slipping or getting ont ofposition. The head and foot of the bed being thus folded together, theyare elevated to a vertical position, and as they rise the pins c' slipround in vthe slots c till they arriveat the bottom of the same, wherethey rest.' This brings the matched head and footboards down into theease, causing them to rest firmly on the parts c c c thereof.

In opening this beadstead the least amount of strength is required tooperate it, as compared with `the old single-joint hinge bedstead, onaccount of the leverage produced by vthe peculiar construction of thehinge connection I m.

Having thus described my invention,

\V|1at I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- 1.The hinge composed of pieces m m, connected by the bar I and pins i t,when said plates m m are provided with the flange t, arranged andoperating substantially as and for the purpose described.

MARK CROSBY.

Witnesses SYLvENUs WALKER, J. R. MGGREADY.

